How many of you read EULA's (End user license agreement)?
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(31 votes)I read them word for word
(323 votes)I skim over them
(1348 votes)I just hit accept as fast as i can
(85 votes)Theres a EULA?
(200 votes)EULA?
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Like anyone reads THOOOSE things.
I love how there are literally zero votes for "read word for word"
early days yet (only 12 votes)
LOL. :-) 0%... this poll results should be shown to people creating EULAs. Curious to know if they ever think of making them interesting. = |
Created? EULA's are summoned from the pits of hell.
Anyone who says they do is lying anyway.
Not quite so. I usually go quickly through them, except when a level editor / SDK is invovled. In such cases, after skimming through them, I reserve some time in the following days to read it word for word.
Now not all licenses should be read word for word; in 99.9% cases there's really no need for that.
However, there are some licenses that should be read entirely: the GPL, LGPL and Creative licenses. After reading them and trying to understand their meaning, you will not make any confusions between Open Source, GPL licensed and free (as in 0 USD/EUR price).
Talk about the diligence of a wolf hunting deer.
Looks like word for word has 2%
I remember reading a lot of the Windows Live EULA because it was actually written in a very approachable style. Frontloading the useful information was helpful too.
Never bothered with any others.
Hurrrm is the EULA that wall of text before i login in WoW?
Really if someone asked what the first word was of that document i dont think i could answer.
lol still a zero for the "I read them word for word" =D
Failblog.org
Hows that for interesting Feillyne?
I think it would be wise to know what your agreeing to exactly before just accepting lol, never know whats in the fine print =]
Hahaha nice one Joe. Thats great
Yup, hehe, they're a bit paranoid. :-D
Well, interesting EULAs should be very short and to the point, i.e. extremely relevant.
Agreed, they should maybe make it like a short video clip like what they use to put on the DVD's for antipiracy, create a lil video of what NOT to do... Like this one =]
Gosh i loved this show
They kinda stole that from Maddox, but it's still pretty funny.
Idk why they add EULA's because we cannot be held responsible for a "contract"
They should make the EULAs into a few sentences like: "Don't upload any of the files anywhere. Don't say that you made them." or whatever.
I skim over all the ones I accept. Still made some mistakes, but a few times I denied because it had some unfavorable terms.
I just look for misspellings....if there are any, it probably not a good program
I just hit accept most of the time, I would read them if it wasn't hundreds of lines of something normal people don't need to know.
Could be potentially bad, but I mostly use stuff plenty other people have already used, not 100% safe but better then downloading and installing 100% fresh software.
EULA can be a real pain in the a**! There are people who had problems with their products because of it...
I just agree as soon as possible. Why? Nobody cares about suck things in Ukraine ;p Piracy all the way!
lmao lol
Oops... just noticed my mistake, please sorry but it had to be "such things" not "suck things" lol.
i read mod ones occasionally mostly because they have some funny ones sometimes
The first and only time I read through the EULA (Like, half of the first paragraph) was when Dad installed Half-Life 1.
It really depends, but I usually skim over it, but once again it depends what it is XD.
would be illegal in germany. you can't "put unexspected things" in such stuff. so i don't need bother reading because it'll be all the same what you can out in them and is left ;-)
You can consider yourselves very lucky then. :-)
Hmm, but isn't it forbidden in other countries either to put 'unexpected things' in EULAs?
I just read the first line, because reading another 300 lines is just too much for me.
I usually skim the pages since, I REALLY don't want to end up paying for ANYTHING other than the product I bought or signed up for
You should at least skim over them. Like some things that you sign up to can give away your personal details to third party peoples. Also there is a whole lot of copy right stuff that can get you into alot of ****. And 'sorry, i did not know' doesnt hold up in court.
Who invented EULAs anyway? Stupid idea when 99% of people aint going to read em. Lol. Still its a hard choice for me here i read ONE. And skimmed like 50.
no one reads them whats the point all of the EULAs say the same exact thing
Hitting "accept" as soon as possible since 1992.
there is a long forgotten legend about a man who read the winxp eula...
He is still doing it now...
I usually skip 'em, but if I like the dev I might skim it a little to see if they put anything amusing in there.
Read one, read them all.
I've commented the poll earlier but I've a simple question now - how do you make animated avatars?
Use animated gif as an avatar.
Easy GIF Animator.
Thanx
I don't usually read them unless i am extremely bored.
it's kind of scary that devs could basically put anything they wanted in there and have it go unnoticed... there ought to be some sort of length limit on the things, hehe
I've read a few out of sheer boredom and to make sure I wasn't signing my life away. Mostly though, I click accept as fast as I can...
I don't think anybody reads them, they are boring and a waste of time
License Agreement (EULA)
MICROSOFT SOFTWARE SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSE TERMS
DEVELOPER ACADEMIC ALLIANCE (DEVELOPER AA) SUBSCRIPTION
These supplemental license terms apply to the Subscription program named above. Together with the Microsoft Developer Network Subscription License terms (“MSDN EULA”), these supplemental license terms are the agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and you for the software provided under the Developer AA program.
You do not have rights under these supplemental license terms unless you have also accepted the MSDN EULA terms. If there is a conflict, these supplemental license terms apply.
By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software.
1. Definitions
* "you" means EITHER
o a department of an educational institution offering courses in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ("STEM"), OR
o an organization that shares students, faculty, or facilities with such departments or is operated for the purpose of helping such departments train students
that Microsoft accepts into the Developer AA program;
* "students" means persons enrolled in your STEM courses, labs, or programs
* "staff" means persons providing IT support to you or managing your participation in the Developer AA program; and
* "faculty" means persons employed to teach STEM courses to your students, assist with STEM courses, labs or programs for your students, or conduct non-commercial STEM research on your behalf.
If you read this please +Vote me :D sorry if this is considered spam. This is only 1/4 of a EULA
I only read the whole thing for steam and my bank card-thingy, the rest i just read maybe 2 lines max